Morbid Obesity in Adolescents Conservative Treatment and Surgical Approaches /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Widhalm, Kurt (Editor), Prager, Gerhard (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Vienna : Springer Vienna : Imprint: Springer, 2015.
• Subjects: Medicine.; Metabolic diseases.; Clinical nutrition.; Pediatrics.; Surgery.; Pediatric surgery.; Medicine & Public Health.; General Surgery.; Pediatric Surgery.; Clinical Nutrition.; Metabolic Diseases.

As the worldwide prevalence of morbid obesity among adolescents continues to rise, recent years have seen a large increase in the performance of adolescent bariatric surgery. While surgical intervention often becomes necessary when conservative weight-loss therapies have failed, no standards regardi...